D&D Online Forum » The Rusty Nail (General) » Will You Play Dungeon And Dragons Online Unlimited? F2P DDO

Title basicially sums it up, will you play it, and why/why not.

Remember this is probably THE highest quality F2P mmo out there once it is realeased..

So without further adu, poll!

 IMO F2P MMO's just don't have the revenue to have the staying power of some of the P2P MMO's being released. Not to mention lack luster customer service.

This doesn't mean I won't play it as an escape from my favorite P2P mmo of the month here and there but I don't think it will be my MMO of choice in the long run.

As for rich? If you skip 3 McDonalds meals a month you have paid for your P2P game...lunch is overrated sometimes...I can do without 3 in a month to play 30 days worth of my favorite game.

I'm not rich, but I've never been a D&D fan. So I may try it though, but I doubt I'll like it. Didn't like the game when I tried a trial of it about a year or so ago. If I had the money, I would go with Lord of the Rings Online. I wish it was that game that was going free to play from Turbine and not DDO

I'll probably give it a try. If its free then what's to lose?

If I played it again I would probably go for the subscription option rather than the free one or maybe just pay for a month when I want and play free the rest of the time.

The cool thing is that you have the choice.

i will certainly give it a try! even if ddo is crap for p2p mmorpg it might be a very good f2p game

i hope codemasters will use the same business model for europe sometime in the future

I definitely plan on giving it a try. I have a soft spot for D&D. Whether I stick to it or not will depend entirely on whether I can get in-game loot equivalent in power to the cash shop items. I don't have any problem with players getting better looking vanity items as long as I don't feel like an underpowered second class citizen *cough*Hellgate:London*cough*.

It usually takes me a month or two of playtime before I can convince myself to spend money, if they can keep me for that long I may actually subscribe or make use of the chash shop.

Yes, I will be playing off and on :)

 I think free to play is good to  Chinese players!  

but don`t have too much limits to free players 

I will carry on playing, if it makes DDO more popular then I don't care how other people pay to play.

Sure if they do something about the 3hr log in queues as well as the constant being kicked out of it "due to server shutting down" errors...making you have to relog in and are at the back of the line once again...doh

Yep, I'll be playing along with a few friends.

We had a lot of interest when DDO first released, but even though most liked the open beta, general consensus was that the gang didn't want to spend a monthly fee for the 1-2 nights a week we'd get together for a couple/few hours to play. I subscribed and played for a little while, but I really wanted to play with my husband & friends, so I wound up back in the game we were already playing.

Going F2P fixes that issue. We'll be able to play once or twice a week with no one grumbling at the monthly sub. I'm really looking forward to it, so I hope Turbine gets it right.

Originally posted by purewitz

I'm not rich, but I've never been a D&D fan. So I may try it though, but I doubt I'll like it. Didn't like the game when I tried a trial of it about a year or so ago. If I had the money, I would go with Lord of the Rings Online. I wish it was that game that was going free to play from Turbine and not DDO

maybe give archlord a try i found they had a lot of similarities

as for d&do it's still in the maybe catagory

Surely will

Nope.  The cost of an MMO is not as important as the trustworhiness of the developer. 

Originally posted by Gennadios

 Whether I stick to it or not will depend entirely on whether I can get in-game loot equivalent in power to the cash shop items.

Cash shop gives a very minor gear advantage - can buy +2 weapons [missed armor?].  This advantage is gone by about level 4 because by then either you have enough gold to buy +2 items from the auction house or you have run enough content to get the "Turbine Points"[aka TP] to buy one of them from the cash shop.

I see a few useful things in the cash shop: 

unlocking drow [not because I even like drow, I don't, but the extra build points are there]

extra character slots [I am an alt-aholic!  After 2 years of casual play, I have just this weekend unlocked drow!]

Spirit cakes [self rez as well as other], Tears potion [removes most conditions], self shrine - these are really just conviences for soloing, unless you're in a really bad PUG

xp/loot boosts may be nice, but not really useful at lowest levels [might help me through the 5-8 slump, though]

Edit: lobotimist good to see you back :) Saw Rattrap on DDO:EU beta boards :)

Yes I will play it. Always wanted to play DDO more but dont have enough time to play it to make a monthly sub worth it imo.

Its a really great move by Turbine and I hope it will be a success for them.

 Considering it. 

Al least in D&D you can go in buildings. I was enjoying Jade Dynasty until I realised everyone in the game is a homeless tramp not allowed even in a shop.

Originally posted by uncus

Edit: lobotimist good to see you back :) Saw Rattrap on DDO:EU beta boards :)

 

Well done mate. Didnt use Rattrap nick for long time here

Nothing free about it really. You still need to purchase the game before it becomes "free". Most people are used to going to the website to simply download the client but that is not the case. 

Though you can multi-class into 3 different classes i still find it oddly restricting. The community is top notch though. Its like walking into a bar with only 4 people and all of them instantly saying hi because now there are 5 of "us".

You dont need to purchase the game

Originally posted by Pieous

I'll probably give it a try. If its free then what's to lose?

It's not really free as most F2P MMOs. The content and your ability to level will be severely limited with DDO:EU unless you fork money.

 I hope people do. I just picked up another trial and it does suffer from being a bit too quiet. I seem to end up soloing despite being ready willing and able to group. Dunno what the server capacities are but gameplay wise it could cope with much larger populations. I always thought 15 bucks was kind of steep anyway.

Originally posted by Gorilla

 I hope people do. I just picked up another trial and it does suffer from being a bit too quiet. I seem to end up soloing despite being ready willing and able to group. Dunno what the server capacities are but gameplay wise it could cope with much larger populations. I always thought 15 bucks was kind of steep anyway.

Make no mistake about it. This is DDO's last stand. They're trying to keep the game alive by offering this pseudo F2P marketing gimmick. But the game, in spite of what the fanbois would lead you to beleive, has been in a population downward spyral for the last year or so. I played that game for a LONG time and the couple of months right before I decided to cancel my account were quite depressing. I'd log in at peak times and there would be only 1 or 2 groups running quests/raids that I've already done about 100 times. Me or one of my guildies would start a group for an unpopular quests and we always ended up short-manning it. It's stupid, quite frankly. It's supposed to be a game heavy on grouping and it was hard to fill groups even when all my guildies were on.

Peace.

i ll play the free content  . i would nt pay codemasters anymore money after they charged my paypal account after i cloased my subscription to lord of the rings online .

i ve alway thought they missed the boat somewhat on their dungeons and dragons and tolkien franchises . i mean these are amongst the most popular if not the most popular fantasy worlds and both games they ve produced around these worlds have really been misconcieved . even though i ll admit lotro does look nice and has some nice pve gameplay now and then , it really is not the game it should have been .

ddo simply never felt like an mmo to me more a co co operative dungeon hack .

a lot of older or failing mmos should look at ddos example or maybe consider more realistic subscription rates for a what they offer.

i hope ddo does well for this reason alone .